A Glimmer of Beauty
William Merritt Chase’s painting Still Life with Fish provides students with the opportunity to discover beauty in unusual places and express their ideas through photography.
William Merritt Chase’s painting Still Life with Fish provides students with the opportunity to discover beauty in unusual places and express their ideas through photography.
Students will learn about Moyo Ogundipe’s creative process and concept of self through his painting Soliloquy: Life’s Fragile Fictions. Through journaling, large and small group discussions, and painting, they will explore aspects of their own identities.
Students will examine the artistic characteristics of the Mummy Case, explore the meaning of various symbols on the case, and write a short essay identifying modern-day equivalents of the ancient Egyptian symbols and their reasons for choosing them.
Students will examine the artistic characteristics of Summer; explain how Arcimboldo’s composite paintings convey multiple layers of meaning; and create a composite drawing or collage of a famous leader from history sharing the accomplishments, issues, and challenges associated with his or her tenure as a leader.
Students will examine the artistic qualities of the paintings, identify different entities or elements which triumph in contemporary life, and develop and illustrate a written piece about an element or entity that triumphs in their lives.
Students will look at the Bird and Cornstalk Rug in pairs and discuss Yellowhair’s inspiration from both natural and man-made forms. They will then engage in a creative writing exercise that develops their awareness of symbolism in their daily lives.
Students will explore how painter Claude Monet and poet E.E. Cummings used different artistic mediums to highlight the contrasts found in a city. They will then explore various literary devices and compose a poem in the style of Cummings.
Students will observe and discuss Daniel Sprick’s still-life painting Release Your Plans and comprise a list of questions they would like to ask the artist. They will then attend a mock press event as art critics, asking questions and jotting down notes for an art review they will write as homework.
William Merritt Chase’s painting Still Life with Fish provides students with the opportunity to discover beauty in unusual places and express their ideas through poetry.
Students will use a writing technique similar to innovating on a text, but rather than working with a text, students will interpret the story of Mud Woman Rolls On from various points of view.
Students will infer and interpret emotions represented in the gestural forms found in artist Roxanne Swentzell’s sculptures, particularly in the hands and feet. Students will choose an emotion to represent in a contour line drawing of hands or feet.
Students will learn about how architect Daniel Libeskind draws inspiration for his work. Then, working in a similar manner, they will create their own architectural design sketches.